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[NRDL]

If you're Azazoth, your entire fan club is going to be dedicated to waking your sleepy ass up.

[crazyabe]

Personally I'd probably end up being a knock off Paladine- walk around following low level mortal heros as a deranged- forgetful- and overpowered wizard for shits and giggles.

[hops]

If you're Azazoth, your entire fan club is going to be dedicated to waking your sleepy ass up.

Yeah, but either I'm asleep, or I'm awake and my fan club suddenly no longer exists.

[Greiger]

Personally I'd probably end up being a knock off Paladine- walk around following low level mortal heros as a deranged- forgetful- and overpowered wizard for shits and giggles.

Ah Fizban the Fabulous.  I actually read the dragonlance trilogy first before I read Lord of the Rings and Hobbit as a kid, and I kept half expecting Gandalf to fireball a wall and blow himself off a cliff.

[Reelya]

Yeah, I read the Dragonlance Trilogy too, but I was amazed a few years ago to read on wikipedia that now there are over 200 novels set in the Dragonlance universe. Ain't nobody gonna read all of that.

Visions of Wonder, edited by David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf, and published by the Science Fiction Research Association, argues that Dragonlance is published under the "omnivore theory" of publishing. In this theory, the readership is made up of teenagers, and completely replaces itself every three to five years. This allows publishers to release subpar novels and still reach a small yet profitable audience.

That's exactly what all those godawful Japanese light novels (the Sword Art Online type of things) do as well. They're actually much worse than mangas, because mangas need to compensate for their audience aging as the story continues, whereas light novels are something where you can jump in and just grab a book, so they can rehash the same stories over and over with a constant target demographic of 14 year olds, who don't realize they're being fed the same pap year after year.

Possibly, the absolute worst novel I ever read was an old TSR Forgotten Realms one. The TSR in-house writers were truly appalling authors. R. A. Salvatore was the exception, but he was really just a lucky find for TSR.

[Max™]

I got immunized to that stuff by being exposed to the Barbarians of Gor at an early age, goddammit if it's gonna be cheesy crap fantasy it's gonna have slave girls in collars or I'm out!

[Rolan7]

I think I'd like the Knowledge and Healing domains.  I'd be the minor deity of useful, invigorating trivia, a favorite of bards and jesters.

Possibly, the absolute worst novel I ever read was an old TSR Forgotten Realms one. The TSR in-house writers were truly appalling authors. R. A. Salvatore was the exception, but he was really just a lucky find for TSR.

Yeah I'm still reading bits of the early Drizz't books occasionally, and they seem pretty fine.  It's edgy and camp, exactly like it's supposed to be, but the characters do have personal motivations and emotions.  I was expecting the drow matriarchs to be one dimensional, instead there's some world-building intrigue.  My expectations were too low.

Now I kinda want to read the original Dragonlance Trilogy for Fizban the crazy wizard, heh.  But also, Raistlin's story sounds legitimately pretty cool from what I heard.

I got immunized to that stuff by being exposed to the Barbarians of Gor at an early age, goddammit if it's gonna be cheesy crap fantasy it's gonna have slave girls in collars or I'm out!

If my fantasy is going to have slave girls in collars, it's going to make them fully realized characters and explain in detail how they internalize their slavery and - Sorry, was just surprised to see Gorean Saga mentioned.  I only read a little because it's kinda... a lot

[Reelya]

I got immunized to that stuff by being exposed to the Barbarians of Gor at an early age, goddammit if it's gonna be cheesy crap fantasy it's gonna have slave girls in collars or I'm out!

That reminds me of a fantasy novel I once read that had some ... very salubrious passages. Can't for the life of me remember what it was called or anything though.

[Mathel]

I would like the Protection and Trickery domains. I would be a chaotic neutral god of annoyance.

[Max™]

If my fantasy is going to have slave girls in collars, it's going to make them fully realized characters and explain in detail how they internalize their slavery and - Sorry, was just surprised to see Gorean Saga mentioned.  I only read a little because it's kinda... a lot

Yeah, the only thing I really kept was an appreciation for chokers.

[Lord Shonus]

I couldn't even get past the covers of any of the Gor books.

[Egan_BW]

Ah, so the judged the books by their covers?~
Probably not a bad choice, in this case.

[Greiger]

Barbarians of Gor sounds familiar and looking it up I vaguely recall seeing that cover at some time in my dad's book collection but I never read it.  Growing up I loved dragons (they still have a soft spot in my heart) and I would read every book I could get my hands on involving them.  Dragonlance, Hobbit, the Temeraire and Age of Fire series, Eragon.  Couldn't get enough. 

I never did finish all the Age of Fire books.  I wonder how AuRon and Wistala are doing, Nameless can rot for all I care bout him.

[MrWiggles]

The Gor Novels is a science fantasy series, where some one from Earth ends up in  this strange land. They are at a point of technology or magic or whatever, that everyone is beaitful and young for ever. And there is a rigid class system of Freeman and slaves. Masters and Kajira. Its smut. Its smut with a lot of world building it.

My SO got into Gor, and was involved in a few Gor kink groups. In BDSM social groups, Goreans, folks who take Gor novels as a structure for life, are just bad folks to stay away from. Elitist, conserative, oddly a lot of TERFs like elements.

[Reelya]

Growing up I loved dragons (they still have a soft spot in my heart) and I would read every book I could get my hands on involving them.  Dragonlance, Hobbit, the Temeraire and Age of Fire series, Eragon.  Couldn't get enough. 

No Dragonriders of Pern series? Lots of dragony stuff in those.